Monkeys and Dolphins, Oh My!

Gonna figure out whether or not I should get a vimeo account, to post videos from on here, I have some animation that is looking much better than last years.

 But! Pics or it didn't happen! So I have to get to that... Also, I've been doing a lot of drawings of monkeys and dolphins still for my concept class.  So I'll give a taste of that then!

Boarding is hard.

So this is just a really rough sequence of the dolphin rescuing the monkey 

(it's underwater, in later boards I hope to put some indication of that and tone, 

I started out putting tone on all of them, and then what do ya know, it's 3am.)

 (camera change)

Here's just an exchange between the monkey and dolphin, 

once the dolphin realizes that he's not human.

Don't you just hate that.

But yeah, here's something I'm working on to improve, my visual storytelling.

I'll give updates later on how these turn out, 

and hopefully put some animation up on here, along with other projects!

Thanks!

An After Dark Doodle

Well. It just kinda happened. I didn't have an overwhelming load so I just went with it.

and you know what, it was fun!

It's not really 'finished' value wise, (and other parts, like that stomach...) but it was a fun study and something that took me out of the all day grind. Putting down shapes and going with thing's I've learned about light and color. Nothing crazy, it just went intuitively.

Update On Concept!

Well, I gave a little preview of the character sheet I was workin on, Adellus the dolphin and Maimou the monkey. This is for my school project and its just got a few tweaks from my last post. I'll include the storytelling image that went with it from the thumbs and process too!

 Final character sheetski, cleaning things up. Thumbs for the images below on the side.

Ended up kind of morphing those thumbnails into what you see below...

Here's the final I ended up turning in after critique...

Focusing on the characters and then making the background secondary (kinda)

 The second revision I made, it lost a lot from the first

I ended up going back a few steps.

It happens. Never settle!

And here's the first image I turned in, way too much happening!

I went 'overboard' (hehehe)

AWWWWWH Sketchy Sketch.

Well, here we go! I edited the scanning images that I took the other day, we had a light day so I should post. Alright, well they basically were all quick gestures besides a few of the more developed portraits which you can probably pick out...

But here's my summer sketchbook and more updates on the way! Enjoy :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, all I have to say is the scanner blew some of these colors

 and I use thin paper so some are a little crappy. I love colerase! 

So little Blog Love!

This blog has been so neglected it is crazy. Alright, well working on our third week of school! Absolutely loving classes, fan-girling about CA has made me so much happier this semester. 

If anyone kept track of my "promise" I made to post summer sketch stuff, I am real sorry for lying to you! But I have (almost) everything scanned, and I got this weekend to make the images nice. 

Love Friday's for the pretend down-time they give me. Until Then! Here's an awkwardly made PDF I did for my concept class, I need to redo parts so update on that soon --if I had a dollar for how many times I've said that....

Here it is!

Sketches For Friends

       May as well show these while I'm thinking about it, here's just some digital sketches of things I've done for friends this summer and in the school year.

The first was for my old boss, she wanted a little sketch of her dress that she bought for her wedding day. The second was kind of a WIP, but I never did end up finishing it... A logo idea for my friend's business he's a part of. Never have actually done graphic design sort of things, it was much harder than I thought it would be, despite how plain it ended up being. Fun stuff out of the norm for me I guess.

There's a Snake in My Barn!

Well jeez! It has been a while since I've updated this puppy! I've been working primarily in my sketchbook lately, so hopefully I'll get on scanning that stuff pretty soon here! 

Here's a little something that I have been working on!

 [looks like the colors didn't transfer, means I gotta push them more :) ]

      I'm real excited about the progression of this guy, I took a lot of time to plan and adjust and think through things I usually just put on the back burner... Like the fundamentals for an illustrative piece, hah! Whoops! I'm learning though and I'm less harsh on myself. Which is turning out to be a really good thing.

Mom's been yelling at me to allow myself to learn (what a concept!?), anxiety and negative thoughts are paralyzing!

But I've tried lots of different techniques that I've admired from friends and other artists! Took a long time to get to this point, but I'll post some other editions of it once I hear some feedback :) I don't think I'm quite done with this one, I hope not at least!

     I have tons and tons of sketches and different save points, on this feller! I'm really close to scanning my summer sketchbook though so big update soon! (hopefully)